Non-fatal firearm violence across 17 US cities using police dashboard data, 2020-2025.

Publication date: Sep 01, 2026

Non-fatal firearm violence is a substantial, but often overlooked, public health burden in the United States (US); however, local data infrastructure remains limited. We identified and summarized city-level public dashboards reporting non-fatal firearm violence. In this descriptive epidemiologic study, we searched for US cities with publicly available dashboards reporting local police-reported non-fatal firearm violence. We then compared violence counts, population-based rates, and trends from 2020 to 2025. Only 17 cities, varying by size and geography, met the inclusion criteria. Rates of non-fatal firearm violence varied nearly eight-fold across cities in 2025, ranging from 13. 3 per 100,000 (Seattle, Washington) to 106. 0 (Portsmouth, Virginia). Annual non-fatal shootings ranged from 83 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) to 1515 (Chicago, Illinois). Most cities saw a spike in non-fatal firearm violence during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), followed by a decline through 2025. Only 17 US cities had publicly available dashboards reporting police-reported non-fatal firearm violence. Given the substantial variation in rates across cities, publicly available local dashboards can strengthen firearm injury surveillance, enable city-level comparisons, and inform violence prevention policies and programs.

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